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RFK Jr is wrong – there's a rich history of autistic poets
Reading and writing poetry, which is anchored in patterns of words, images, sounds and forms, is particularly well suited for people with autism.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently declared autism a national “ epidemic,” calling it a “preventable disease” that is growing at an “alarming rate.” Beyond living writers, readers and researchers have also explored the possibility that poets from the past may have had autistic characteristics, even before autism came to be formally theorized by clinicians in the mid-20th century. In 2010, for example, literary scholar Julie Brown suggested that renowned American poet Emily Dickinson had characteristics – such as sensory issues, social quirkiness and a savant’s command of language – that align with those of some individuals on the autism spectrum.
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